We are actually going to have to move the forum to a new webhost. The forum software is very out of date as well which is putting it under constant attack from spammers. The forum is secure but just has lots of spam sign ups. Phpbb forum software is hard to hack.

However do to other issues the forum needs to move. Hopefully nothing will be lost and the process will be smooth. I need to test the new location first and then do backups. After that I will let you all know and the forum may have to go down for a day or three.

I'll let you all know soon!

Quick! Untie us before they realise you're not a God, you're just an American. (From that film!)

Thanks for this, VZ. Whilst I have full confidence in VZ can I suggest that for those Fan fiction writers amongst us, that you back up your own stories if you haven't done so already, to be on the safe side. I'd hate those to be lost.

The Decision to Survive - A good pilot is both born and made. The best would look upon his work as a combination of adventure and a serious mission. – Major General Sir Frederick Sykes

Anything that you want, back up folks. Think of it as carrying an umbrella to make sure it doesn't rain. I have every confidence in vZ but am continually surprised that I haven't made the forum disappear.

'Major Bigglesworth' said Von Stalhein coldly, 'there are times when I seriously wonder if you were created by the devil just to annoy me.'

I was very distressed when I first saw the Email from the Forum - I thought something dreadful had happened I think it is a great idea to move the Forum and update the software - thanks very much VZ for thinking about the Forum when you are so busy at the moment. I hope all goes well with the transfer. I have complete faith in all the Moderators and Admin. team but I will have my fingers crossed until everything is up and running again.

Frecks wrote:I was very distressed when I first saw the Email from the Forum - I thought something dreadful had happened I think it is a great idea to move the Forum and update the software - thanks very much VZ for thinking about the Forum when you are so busy at the moment. I hope all goes well with the transfer. I have complete faith in all the Moderators and Admin. team but I will have my fingers crossed until everything is up and running again.

Kismet and I have spent the better part of last week deleting a whole load of Spam posts and members, mainly from Russia. It was, in part, this that prompted a look at updating the forum. We are in capable hands. VZ has the knowledge.

The Decision to Survive - A good pilot is both born and made. The best would look upon his work as a combination of adventure and a serious mission. – Major General Sir Frederick Sykes

I should be able to move everything. I have made a new forum at the new host as a test. However, this will need to wait a few days as I don't have the data to move it. In the Scottish Highlands the internet is very slow and I use mobile data in a mi-fi router. I buy a packet each month of data and after 20gigs it goes slow. In 3 days time I'll get full speed again.

Still, it is best to backup anything you want to keep.

Quick! Untie us before they realise you're not a God, you're just an American. (From that film!)

At least a couple of other fora I frequent use Xenforo software ... (I think at least one of them has an automatic spam account deletion method)

Thank you VZ & All who make this the best, the friendliest & the most amazing Forum on the Planet!

They've been working together for so long that each seems to know by a sort of telepathy when another is in trouble. One never seems to get them together. Get one & the others come after him. To give the devil his due they make a formidable team.

I'm going to start work on the forum very soon. Today or tomorrow. The forum will be down or funny looking. I'll post a mass email when I start and one when I finish, when the new forum is up (hopefully!!)

Quick! Untie us before they realise you're not a God, you're just an American. (From that film!)